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Re:Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness by jgord on Friday December 18, 2015 @06:58PM (#10761853)
Maybe its useful to discern between 'rational depression' and 'medical depression' .. by firstly labeling them as such ?

I don't know how you'd differentiate between this formally, but it seems there is a massive difference - and they need different solutions.

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Re:Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness by sean-duffy on Friday December 18, 2015 @07:01PM (#10761870)
I believe the medical terminology is exogenous and endogenous depression, where exogenous is due to external factors and endogenous is independent of them.
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Re:Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness by jgord on Saturday December 19, 2015 @11:20PM (#10766042)
.. awareness of the distinction seems absent from the article, and from a lot of popular articles I've read.

My point is that it would help if this distinction permeated into the popular discourse on depression ...

[ Awareness of the distinction might make the general public more likely to question the morality of pumping up soldiers with anti-depressant drugs before they go into battle, for example ]

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